privacy

The privacy furor stirred up over the past couple of weeks by the launch of Google’s social tool, Buzz, caused the search giant to make some fairly radical changes to the service. It also threw the issue of privacy in social networking into sharp relief. Read More »

There are lots of reasons to like Buzz; there have already been some great tips published on how to use it. But I’m feeling frustrated, not only because of the privacy issues, but for a more basic reason: it feels slow and not very usable. Read More »

 
 

Who Owns Your Data?

Here on WWD, we’ve recently been discussing privacy in social media, but the issues of privacy, security and data ownership actually extend much further, affecting everything we do on the Internet. As our computing increasingly moves to the web from the desktop, more of our personal and… Read More »

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the personal, professional and private information we share online, especially in light of all of the recent discussions about the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy. I actually believe that online privacy is more of an illusion than… Read More »

Facebook gives users many tools for controlling what personal information is displayed to friends and others. But if you have lots of Facebook friends, you probably don’t want to create privacy settings for each person you know. However, Facebook allows you to create groups of friends,… Read More »

In the current economy, business networking is more important than ever: We need to use lots of different techniques for finding clients. Social networks can be a great addition to our marketing toolboxes. Since I started actively using social networks (only a year and a half… Read More »

When working on-site, it’s reasonably easy to maintain your employer’s or client’s confidentiality. But what about security in your home office? OK, so your dinner guests aren’t likely to be covert operatives for your employer’s largest competitor, angling to steal company secrets between the appetizer and… Read More »

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Cogi: Capture, Transcribe and Share Phone Meetings

Earlier December saw the launch of Cogi (pronounced co-jee), an audio recording and transcription service in the mould of QTech’s reQall and SkyDeck, bringing a potentially a valuable note taking tool for web workers. The US-based service enables users to capture the audio content of any phone… Read More »

Maintaining Privacy as an Online Freelancer

Can the internet public know more about you than you would like?  According to an article at New Scientist, there’s a company that uses software to analyze blogs and forum posts to find out a blogger’s age, gender, and interests.  Web workers who are avid users… Read More »

Cellity: Another Contender for Address Book 2.0

The creation of Address Book 2.0 – the evolution of contacts applications into something more distributed, social and elegant – is a prize being hotly contested by many startups. Just recently, Web Worker Daily has examined Soocial, ContactHero and some of the privacy pitfalls of web-based… Read More »

Gmail Remote Signout

Yesterday Google introduced a ‘remote signout’ feature for Gmail, providing a capability that sets an inportant precendent for web-based applications and indeed web workers. Most web workers tend to hop between multiple devices to access our web applications; Gmail is a great case in point with multiple… Read More »

Privacy or Portability, Which Will It Be?

Facebook has been pilloried for not caring enough about our privacy. But now they face a call to offer data portability, something that could, if not carefully designed, compromise the privacy we so wanted last year. Facebook disabled blogger Robert Scoble’s account after he ran automated scripts… Read More »

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